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jazzfishWell, it's red: "This index was designed as a first approach to the famous problem of locating a book using visual rather than textual clues." Where was this when I was working at Walden's?
Kevin Drum on The Republican Base: "It turns out that the only thing these GOP voters hated more than helping the poor was being told that it's wrong to torture people."
The InterWeb makes people lazy and stupid: I disagree, actually. People have always been split between those that ask for help when five seconds of effort on their part would solve the problem, and those that won't ask for help after banging their heads against something for three hours. Or, if you prefer, the ones that learned that asking for help results in help versus the ones that learned that asking for help results in being told to do it yourself. (I think of these groups as "the lazy ones" and "the stubborn ones." Your mileage may vary.) The Internet just provides the former with more people that they can ask for help.
the best Caesar ever, in a post devoted to improving the works of Shakespeare by replacing characters with ninjas.
In memoriam: one 20 gig Western Digital hard drive, August 2000 - November 2007. Cause of death: power glitches and my own attempts to repair it. Outlived three motherboards, two power supplies, and two O/S reinstalls. Survived by an 850 meg Western Digital hard drive (twelve years and counting) and a laptop. To be replaced by an 80 gig Western Digital hard drive for roughly half the price.
And thank Gord for the laptop, onto which I backed up nearly everything a week before. I've lost the save state on a handful of games and seven years' worth of archived email, but it could have been infinitely worse. Plus this provides a good excuse to upgrade from Eudora 5.1. (For various reasons none of the other programs I tried would import the old email correctly. I dunno.) Moral: always back up your data, kids, you never know when distaster will strike.
Kevin Drum on The Republican Base: "It turns out that the only thing these GOP voters hated more than helping the poor was being told that it's wrong to torture people."
The InterWeb makes people lazy and stupid: I disagree, actually. People have always been split between those that ask for help when five seconds of effort on their part would solve the problem, and those that won't ask for help after banging their heads against something for three hours. Or, if you prefer, the ones that learned that asking for help results in help versus the ones that learned that asking for help results in being told to do it yourself. (I think of these groups as "the lazy ones" and "the stubborn ones." Your mileage may vary.) The Internet just provides the former with more people that they can ask for help.
the best Caesar ever, in a post devoted to improving the works of Shakespeare by replacing characters with ninjas.
In memoriam: one 20 gig Western Digital hard drive, August 2000 - November 2007. Cause of death: power glitches and my own attempts to repair it. Outlived three motherboards, two power supplies, and two O/S reinstalls. Survived by an 850 meg Western Digital hard drive (twelve years and counting) and a laptop. To be replaced by an 80 gig Western Digital hard drive for roughly half the price.
And thank Gord for the laptop, onto which I backed up nearly everything a week before. I've lost the save state on a handful of games and seven years' worth of archived email, but it could have been infinitely worse. Plus this provides a good excuse to upgrade from Eudora 5.1. (For various reasons none of the other programs I tried would import the old email correctly. I dunno.) Moral: always back up your data, kids, you never know when distaster will strike.
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Date: 2007-12-04 04:53 pm (UTC)Like what? I'm serious-- what actual policy positions are there disagreements on? The White Guys Club was up there trying to outdo each other on tax-cutting, banning illegal immigrants, beefing up national security, banning Teh Ghey, and "returning abortion to the states."
Anything McCain will say will rate low with the base.
This isn't just "low," it's "about as low as it gets." And only for the one statement.
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Date: 2007-12-04 06:17 pm (UTC)Abortion (past records mostly are pissing off some GOP)
Gun control
Big government
I found this (http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/hillary-edwards-tough-1928255-big-foreign) article that seems to go over it well. I disagree with him on the Democrats though. They seem to be pretty different in their Democrat party positions with perhaps Senator Obama being the most Democrat of the Democrats.
Once again this year, I feel that I may not be voting for someone so much as against. Obviously you know that I am not a Democrat, but I feel for Mark Warner. I may have voted for him, but he does not have the glamor or name recognition as the top candidates in the party - which is what we need in a good presidential candidate. No fluff. No crap.